The private cloud versus public cloud debate is heating up, as updated research on the adoption of each sheds light on the direction of cloud computing. RightScale's annual State of the Cloud Survey indicates that while the private...

PHP Developers that run apps in the cloud will be pleased to learn that Zend Technologies has released a new version of their Zend Server application platform on the AWS Marketplace. The newest iteration (version 8) of the PHP application...

Cloud-based development environment Nitrous.io announced that it solution will be provided to startups as part of the AWS Activate program. Those opting to use Nitrous.io will be able to create Ruby, Python, Go, and NodeJS environments...

It looks like businesses are finally coming around when it comes to using public and private cloud environments for hosting their applications. Statisics released today from Bitnami , a service that enables users to launch applications...

If you’re like me, you probably sat down with your family over the holiday break to relax and watch something on Netflix, only to find that its service was uncharacteristically down. Well, it seems that the company has corrected...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) wanted to give its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) users a present, and what better way to celebrate the holidays than with family – a new instance family, that is. The cloud computing services provider...

Customers can now replicate Riak Cloud Storage (Riak CS) data across multiple data centers to assure its users that they can avoid disruptions from outages and serve content faster to multiple geographic locations, all while building...

NetApp , the cloud storage provider, recently brought the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its customers. The company’s new solution, NetApp Private Storage for AWS, will use the AWS Direct Connect service to allow enterprise...

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of a new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region , the ninth in its global cloud computing platform. “Over 10,000 customers in Australia and New Zealand are already using AWS, and this is before...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is going metropolitan. For the first time, AWS Direct Connect will have a presence in New York thanks to a new partnership with datacenter provider CoreSite . CoreSite provides datacenter products and interconnection...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping businesses get more interactive by launching dynamic content support for Amazon CloudFront , giving customers a simple and cost-effective way to improve the performance, reliability and global reach...

Amazon Web Services recently reported adding approximately 143 billion new objects to its Simple Storage Service (S3) in Q1 of 2012. This comes not long after the announcement that in 2011 S3 tripled the number of stored objects over...

The size of the cloud just keeps growing – at least it does for Amazon. The company announced late last week that at the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects in Amazon S3 and that it routinely handles...

At this point, it's pretty much common knowledge that Amazon Web Services (AWS) , the e-commerce giant's cloud computing services provider, is going to make waves in the industry, and this last week really helped to reinforce...

Amazon has just introduced Amazon Simple Workflow Service ( Amazon SWF ), enabling developers to coordinate processes when building distributed applications. Developers using the service will be able to structure various processing...